TY - GEN
T1 - When drones take public transport: Towards low cost and large range parcel delivery
AU - Huang, Hailong
AU - Savkin, Andrey V.
AU - Huang, Chao
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Australian Research Council.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Though drones have become a promising tool for parcel delivery, due to the limited capacity of the on-board battery, their flight range is constrained. To enlarge the coverage range, the paper proposes a novel method, in which a parcel delivery drone can 'take' a public transportation vehicle and travel on its roof. We investigate how to make use of the public transportation network to route the drone between the depot and a customer. Considering the complexity of the public transportation network, its randomness and time-dependency, instead of off-line planning a global optimal path, an adaptive algorithm is developed. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate how the proposed approach works.
AB - Though drones have become a promising tool for parcel delivery, due to the limited capacity of the on-board battery, their flight range is constrained. To enlarge the coverage range, the paper proposes a novel method, in which a parcel delivery drone can 'take' a public transportation vehicle and travel on its roof. We investigate how to make use of the public transportation network to route the drone between the depot and a customer. Considering the complexity of the public transportation network, its randomness and time-dependency, instead of off-line planning a global optimal path, an adaptive algorithm is developed. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate how the proposed approach works.
KW - Control of parcel delivery systems
KW - Drones
KW - Parcel delivery
KW - Public transportation network
KW - UAVs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85079077762
U2 - 10.1109/INDIN41052.2019.8972170
DO - 10.1109/INDIN41052.2019.8972170
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85079077762
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
SP - 1657
EP - 1660
BT - IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2019
Y2 - 22 July 2019 through 25 July 2019
ER -